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Thomas's Street, in continuation of the extensive improvement
effected in that district, and invited this Board to co-opera???
with them in memorializing the Metropolitan Board of Work
to contribute to the cost of so doing, by removal of houses on t???
north side ; this Board, after due consideration of the plan sul???
mitted, were of opinion that if the street were widened chiefly o???
the south side, it would form an extension in effect of the ne
Southwark-street, and constitute a metropolitan improvemen
On representing their views on the subject to the St. Olave's Board
they fully concurred therewith, and the terms of a joint memorial
having been agreed upon, the same was presented to the Metro
politan Board by a deputation from the two districts on the 29???
of November last, and referred to the Works and General Pur
poses Committee of that Board for consideration and report.
By order of the Commissioners of Police, the following street
within the "general limits" of the Metropolitan Streets Act
1867, are to be deemed to be within the "special limits" of the
same, viz.—
WELLINGTON STREET
DUKE STREET
HIGH STREET
TOOLEY STREET
The effect of this order is inter alia to render illegal the
removal of dust from houses in any of these streets between the
hours of 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., and also the loading and unloading
of coal, and removal of casks by means of ropes, chains, &c.,
between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. The general provisions of the Act
are sufficiently well known to render any reference thereto
unnecessary.
Two other Acts of some importance were passed during the
last Session of Parliament, and are now in force, viz.—the
Factory Acts' Extension Act, 1867, and the Workshop Regulation
Act, 1867.
By the former of these, in conjunction with previous Acts, a
large number of trades have been placed under restrictions as
regards the labour of children, young persons and women, which
restrictions are enforced by the inspectors of factories. These
trades are the following:—cotton and other textile factories,
printworks, bleaching, dyeing and finishing works, lace, earthenware,
fustian cutting, percussion cap, cartridge, lucifer match
and paper staining factories, blast furnaces, copper and iron
mills and foundries, the manufacture of metal, of machinery, of
indiarubber and gutta percha, of paper, of glass, of tobacco,
letter-press printing and bookbinding; and in addition to the
above, any manual labour exercised for the purposes of gain, on
premises where not less than fifty persons are employed in
making, preparing, or finishing any article for sale.